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Het Plan van McCain om de Gezondheidszorg van Veteranen' te privatiseren

Zondag, 24 Augustus, 2008

(IPS) | Als John McCain de volgende V.S. wordt verkozen. de voorzitter, zou gewonde veteranen binnen voor een wereld van gekwetst kunnen zijn.

Voor de campagnesleep, heeft de vermoedelijke benoemde van de Republikein van een nieuwe opdracht voor de Afdeling van de Zaken van Veteranen (VA) gesproken en gedebatteerd dat de veteranen met niet-gevechts medische problemen bons zouden moeten worden gegeven om zorg bij de privé, voor-winstziekenhuizen - met andere woorden, een eind aan het soort universele gezondheidszorg te ontvangen de overheid veteranen voor generaties heeft gewaarborgd.

„Wij moeten de last op VA van routinegezondheidszorg verlichten,“ McCain vertelde het Nationale Forum vorige maand over de Kwesties van de Onbekwaamheid. „Als u een routinegezondheidszorgbehoefte hebt, neem het waar u wilt, arts of gezondheidszorgleverancier en de behandeling krijg u wenst, terwijl wij bij de nadruk VA onze aandacht, onze zorg, onze liefde, op deze erge wonden van oorlog.“

De republikeinse senator debatteert dat zou het geven van veteranen een kaart VA die zij bij privé artsen kunnen gebruiken de lange wachttijdtijden verkorten vele veteranen in het zien van overheid artsen onder ogen zien, die bijna universeel zoals onder het beste in de wereld worden bekeken.

Een recente studie door het Bedrijf van de RAND vond dat „de patiënten VA eerder zouden geadviseerde zorg“ ontvangen en „constant betere zorg over de hele linie, met inbegrip van onderzoek, diagnose ontving, behandeling en follow-up“ dan dat geleverd door de andere V.S. gezondheidszorgleveranciers.

Vrijwel alle veteranengroepen verzetten zich het plan van McCain. De veteranen nationale wetgevende directeur van van Buitenlandse Oorlogen heeft de' gezegd de kaart VA „het volledige systeem“ zou ondermijnen.

Volgens het Centrum voor Ontvankelijke Politiek, heeft de Democraat Barack Obama bijna zes keer zo veel geld van troepen ontvangen die overzee op het tijdstip van hun bijdrage worden opgesteld dan Republikeinse John McCain heeft.

Dit kan aan wat oneven schijnen aangezien McCain een een vroegere zeeambtenaar, een krijgsgevangene, en veteraan van de Oorlog van Vietnam is.

Nochtans, zeggen Paul Sullivan, een veteraan van de Oorlog van de Golf en een uitvoerende directeur van de onpartijdige Veteranen voor Gezond verstand, dat voor McCain, de vrije marktideologie belangrijker is dan verstrekkend zorg voor vroegere militairen.

„Ideologues zoals John McCain en George Bush haten het feit dat VA bestaat,“ Sullivan vertelde IPS, opmerkend dat de Republikeinse kandidaat ook sociale voorzieningen wil gedeeltelijk privatiseren en privé schoolbons aan studenten aanbieden die momenteel in openbare scholen worden ingeschreven.

“They hate the fact that there’s a functional example out there of the government providing better care at a lower cost than the private sector,” Sullivan said. “The problem that the VA faces now is that the Bush administration failed to hire enough doctors and disability claims adjusters when they chose to go to war with Iraq. If these doctors had been hired, the VA would be an example of the government doing good work. Bush and McCain don’t want the public to see that.”

McCain has also never spelled out what he means by a “combat injury”, leading many veterans worried they could be left out in the cold.

“If I’m driving a Humvee in Iraq and a roadside bomb explodes and I veer off the road and crush my arm and end up losing it and needing a prosthetic, is that a combat wound according to Sen. McCain?” asked retired Air Force Colonel Richard Klass, the president of the Council for a Livable World’s VETPAC, which has endorsed Obama.

Official Pentagon policy calls such an incident a non-combat injury. Technically speaking, the only soldiers “wounded” in combat are those hit by direct enemy fire. As of Aug. 5, Department of Defence statistics showed 32,799 U.S. soldiers had been “wounded” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another 10,685 had sustained “non-hostile” injuries which required a medical evacuation, while 29,881 were classified as “ill” enough to be airlifted out of the war-zone.

Veterans are also sceptical of McCain’s plans because as a senator, he has repeatedly voted against fully funding veterans’ health care. In 2005 and 2006, McCain voted against expanding mental health care and readjustment counseling for service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, efforts to expand inpatient and outpatient treatment for injured veterans, and proposals to lower co-payments and enrollment fees veterans must pay to obtain prescription drugs.

McCain’s vote also helped defeat a proposal by Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow that would have made veterans’ health care an entitlement programme like social security, so that medical care would not become a political football to be argued over in Congress each budget cycle.

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) gave him a D+ when they scored his voting record (whereas Obama got a B+). He’s voted with the interests of Disabled American Veterans only 20 percent of the time.

“If McCain would work to properly fund VA care, there would be no issue about a VA card,” said Larry Scott, who edits the website VAWatchdog.org. “McCain, by wanting to give vets private care, is walking away from the VA and ignoring the problem. He is admitting that he will not properly fund the VA to the level where it can care for all qualified vets. ”

Scott is sharply critical of the VA’s often cumbersome and ineffective bureaucracy, but like most veterans’ advocates, believes the VA system needs to be strengthened. He sees McCain’s plan as a way to phase out the government’s commitment to those who’ve served.

“For every vet who would get a VA card, that would be one less vet using the VA,” he wrote in an e-mail to IPS. That “would mean, in a short period of time, a smaller budget, fewer locations…and the eventual dismantling of the best health care system in the country.”

*IPS Correspondent Aaron Glantz is author of the upcoming book “The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans”.



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